1.   Many nations used sanctions as an economic lever to help end apartheid in South Africa.

2.   Speaking about South Africa and apartheid, most Tories opposed the use of sanctions as an effective measure to change their behaviour and discrimination against black people.

3.   At the top of his list has been ending the use of trade sanctions as a tool of American foreign policy.

4.   At the time Pyongyang repeatedly warned that it would consider any sanctions as acts of war.

5.   Administration officials said they favored a call for new elections in Peru using the threat of multilateral economic sanctions as leverage.

6.   Communist North Korea has repeatedly said it would regard such sanctions as an act of war.

7.   Developing countries oppose such sanctions as big-nation protectionism aimed at products that provide jobs to their impoverished people.

8.   He called for the full and permanent lifting of sanctions as the best way to speed a peace agreement.

9.   Hirabayashi said companies in the industry were exploring broader attacks on the sanctions as a whole.

10.   Iraq specialists hailed the new sanctions as long overdue.